TY - JOUR

T1 - TROPICAL EPIPHYTES OF DIFFERENT TAXONOMIC GROUPS FORM SIMILAR SUSPENDED SOILS

AU - Eskov, Alen K.

AU - Elumeeva, Tatiana G.

AU - Viktorova, Violetta A.

AU - Leonov, Vlad. D.

AU - Prilepsky, Nikolay G.

AU - Низамутдинов, Тимур Ильгизович

AU - Коузов, Сергей Александрович

AU - Абакумов, Евгений Васильевич

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - The suspended soils, associated with epiphytic plants in tropical forest canopies, have a very special type of biological cycle, morphological organization and ecological functional role. We have studies out whether the chemical composition and hydrological parameters depend significantly on the genesis of suspended soil, or they represent a single soil phenomenon with a certain supposed ecosystem function. Their maximum water holding capacity and field moisture capacity reaches hundreds and even thousands of percent which cannot but lead to mesophilization of the microclimate of the near-stem environments. The high content of nutrients in tropical suspended soils is enormously high compared to forest soils of other climatic zones and should be noted as their most important attributive characteristic. This once again confirms the hypothesis that the essence of epiphytic soil formation was and is that the biotic cycle breaks away from the ground and moves evolutionarily into the middle and upper tiers of the tropical rainforest ecosystem. Tree trunks in this context represent vertically and subhorizontally oriented phase interfaces, similar to parent materials, and epiphytic soils are analogues of peat accumulations with extremely high water-holding capacity, which is of extremely important environmental significance.

AB - The suspended soils, associated with epiphytic plants in tropical forest canopies, have a very special type of biological cycle, morphological organization and ecological functional role. We have studies out whether the chemical composition and hydrological parameters depend significantly on the genesis of suspended soil, or they represent a single soil phenomenon with a certain supposed ecosystem function. Their maximum water holding capacity and field moisture capacity reaches hundreds and even thousands of percent which cannot but lead to mesophilization of the microclimate of the near-stem environments. The high content of nutrients in tropical suspended soils is enormously high compared to forest soils of other climatic zones and should be noted as their most important attributive characteristic. This once again confirms the hypothesis that the essence of epiphytic soil formation was and is that the biotic cycle breaks away from the ground and moves evolutionarily into the middle and upper tiers of the tropical rainforest ecosystem. Tree trunks in this context represent vertically and subhorizontally oriented phase interfaces, similar to parent materials, and epiphytic soils are analogues of peat accumulations with extremely high water-holding capacity, which is of extremely important environmental significance.

UR - http://www.geobotanica.ru/bp/2025_14_01/BP_2025_14_1_eskov.pdf

U2 - 10.17581/bp.2025.14104

DO - 10.17581/bp.2025.14104

M3 - Article

VL - 14

SP - 45

EP - 59

JO - Botanica Pacifica

JF - Botanica Pacifica

SN - 2226-4701

IS - 1

ER -